Cloud Engineer Jobs in Southampton

Cloud Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Southampton is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 63 74
Rank change year-on-year +29 +11 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 7 15 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 2.06% 1.74% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 1.79% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £46,500 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% +17.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £72,500 £54,500 £47,500
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £58,000 £46,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +24.73% -21.85% +19.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southampton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Southampton with a recognized job title 334 839 720
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.53% 97.22% 93.14%
Number of salaries quoted 263 711 572
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Hampshire median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% -3.85% -0.95%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Southampton

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Southampton.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in Southampton

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Southampton over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Southampton

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Southampton region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) SaaS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Terraform
4 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Datadog
4 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) CEH
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (28.57%) IaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
4 2 (28.57%) GitOps
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
4 2 (28.57%) GDPR
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) SaaS
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Run
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (28.57%) IaaS
3 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) IPsec
2 2 (28.57%) OSPF
2 2 (28.57%) SSL
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) VoIP
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Security
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
2 2 (28.57%) GitOps
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Logistics
2 2 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (28.57%) Observability
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) CEH
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (14.29%) CCNP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper